Town have confirmed the signing of Tottenham midfielder Massimo Luongo on a season-long loan. As reported earlier, the 19-year-old was at Portman Road this afternoon to complete the paperwork on the switch and to look around the ground.

Luongo, who TWTD was first to reveal was being targeted by the Blues a fortnight ago, told the club site: "Joining Ipswich on loan is a great opportunity for me and I'm really looking forward to challenging for a first-team place here.”

He later added on Twitter: "Happy to have things sorted at Ipswich. It should be a good experience for me at this great club. Looking forward to it!"

The holding midfielder will train with his new team-mates for the first time on Tuesday and could be in the squad for Wednesday's friendly at Cambridge United.

Sydney-born Luongo joined Spurs in January 2011 after impressing while on trial, where he trained under Blues new academy director Bryan Klug, having previously played for APIA Leichhardt Tigers in his homeland.

He made nine appearances for their U18s in the 2010/11 season scoring three goals from central midfield, including one in a final day 2-1 defeat of Town’s youngsters.

By the beginning of last season he had impressed enough to make his senior debut — and miss the decisive spotkick in a shoot-out — as a 71st minute sub in a Carling Cup tie with Stoke. That remains his only first team appearance.

Capped twice by Australia at U20 level and called into senior training camps, 5ft 9½in tall Luongo also qualifies to play for Italy, the nation of his father's birth, and Indonesia, where his mother was born.

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jas0999 added 09:57 - Jul 24 Welcome and good luck. Personally not keen on loans (although this is at least a season long loan), but if he helps in a successful season then great. However, back to square one next Summer - all of last years loans have not returned, meaning we start again - not good for consistency.
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Surco72 added 10:34 - Jul 24 Jas0999 loans are no different to players running down their contracts you either have to sell them early or they go either way no consistency ? With the bigger financial restraints imposed on teams now they have to use loans rather than tie themselves to contracts the clubs cannot afford . And every team in every league change 4-5 players a season either because they get promoted /relegated and players are not good enough to go up or too good to go down or because like us the season was mid table mediocracy that everyone is trying to change

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dirtydingusmagee added 10:44 - Jul 24 bluey123 you should be wearing green & yellow, ....OH YOU ARE !.Mussimo welcome to Town .
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Dozzells_Bobblehat added 10:57 - Jul 24 Pj needs Duncan - u r right Wabara was a waste of time, but you seem to have forgotten Stockdale, Andrews, Collins and Bullard (player of the year on loan). As usual focus on the one negative when there are positives too. daley - who on here is predicting promotion ?? Thankfully most people on here are sensible and dont live on past glories. We over achieved for a lot of years in the 70's and 80's for a club of our size. We should rightly be proud of those achievements but we shouldnt constantly be comparing to it. We have potential to get back to the PL one day and hopefully we will but u and some others seem to think we have a divine right to be in the Premier League. We dont.

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shoopdelang added 12:19 - Jul 24 Pique you should do it... It is a good way to pass time when at work lol
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